Starting My Blog

When reading the title “Hills like White Elephant”, I think of something that is rare, but big.  A hill that is big can be difficult to surmount.  The title itself speaks to the story.   There is something that the American man and the girl (Jig) cannot surmount.  As you read the conversation they are having, it seems like they are talking about an abortion without saying it outright. A decision was made, Jig did say she would go through with it, and the man keeps referring to it as a simple procedure.  So, it’s not the decision that is insurmountable.  As I read what Jig was saying, it seems like she feels one way one minute and then another way in the next sentence.  She banters back and forth, which leads me to ponder the possibility that the insurmountable hill is not that she’s having the abortion but that she perhaps feels guilty that she wants the abortion.  The setting takes place in Spain, where Catholicism is the prominent religion...

I found “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin quite interesting.  The story begins by mentioning that “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble.”  Immediately, I knew this was important, like a foreshadowing of what was to come, but I did not expect the twist of her heart trouble to be so ironic. Mrs. Mallard hears of her husband’s death and begins a journey of emotions.  Throughout the story, with the use of imagery you find that she is repressed in her marriage although her husband seems nice and has looked upon her with love.  She does not seem to reciprocate that love all the time, and I was left to wonder why.  Perhaps, she did not marry for love, but for convenience or because it was expected of woman during the 1800s or maybe she did marry for love, but because of the times, she was not free to really be herself. Throughout the emotions that she experiences, instead of feeling a sense of loss that comes from grief, she comes to this epiph...